title: Nonrashes. 6. Telepathic pruritus.
abstract: We report the case of a paranoid schizophrenic man who suffered from the delusion that two other men used mental telepathy to make him itch over a period of thirteen years. To our knowledge, this is the first report of "telepathic pruritus."
authors.affiliation: Division of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01655.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Bernhard
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D003702:Delusions; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011537:Pruritus / Q000523:psychology*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology*; D013688:Telepathy